Slashdot Mirror

The original Slashdot story about Jon prompted me throw up a mirror on my own site, and link to it from a comment. (I'm a UK citizen resident in the UK, as is the server holding my little site.) A couple of months later I was clearing the christmas mail list backlog when I came across a legalistic document concerning deCSS. To my amazement it seemed I was a defendant ("John Doe #13") in the California case. (The 2600 case is in NYC.)

In the ensuing two and a half years I've become increasingly radicalised (in the geek sense: I had a flirtation with "IRL" politics for a few years in my late teens/early 20s and lost interest pretty thoroughly after that.) In retrospect, this event was the first time I made a small gesture of public support for the freedoms we all consider so important. The reaction to it, whilst amusing, has given me a different perspective on matters which previously seemed unconnected: the importance of the GPL, for instance, the reasons *why* the DMCA is just the tip of an iceberg...

The only moral to my anecdote is this: where's *your* mirror of deCSS? Mine's still there =)

That's right, I keep forgetting that some people seen to believe gasoline is safe the H2. The "oops, big explosion" you're refering to has nothing to do with H2 but more to do with the metallic (rocket fuel like) coating that was put on the airship skin. H2 is renewable, He is not renewable...

Btw, the reason that H2 is safe than gasoline is before H2 will raise up and escape, where as gasoline fumes will sink and pool in nice easy to explode pockets. Let's count the number of gasoline explosion compared to H2 explosions that have resulted in loss of life....

If was going to build one of these puppies, I'd fill it with H2. Remember, more than 80% of people on the hindenburg escaped without injury, can that be said of any of todays aircraft? Gee, these days if something goes wrong on an aircraft in flight, even if it's just taken off you are almost sure to get 100% fatality rate....

From Critical dates:
# 3E11 approx. - UNIX 64-bit signed time_t fails (seconds from 1970) - A.D. 292,277,026,596-12-04 Sun 15:30:08 GMT (checked).
Even though I have no idea if it's right or not, the string "(checked)" makes me feel better. No one would lie on tha intarweb, right?

Anyway, Stockton's page had me occupied for a few good hours. It's quite a read. It has great stuff on it, like the base filedate for Windows "Last Modified" calculation, when 16-bit BSDs die, when NTFS fails, etc. LOTS of good dates there.

I even submitted my newly-discovered UNIAPI_TIME epoch value. It was much more exciting that submitting my transmeta-based Gateway/AOL Webpad's BogoMips value to the BogoMips mini-HOWTO.

-B

D&D was, for it's time, an incredible piece of work. It managed to put across so much that's now taken for granted. For example, the fact that you play just one character was near revolutionary for the time - D&D was the first to get that across sucessfully. Were it not for D&D, RPG's would exist . (Okay something else would have taken it's place, but that's a given).

Since then, however, there's been a large number of different RGP's produced, some more or less like D&D (such as RM), some a bit different (Call of Cuthullu, Vampire:the Masqurade, etc), and some rather different (Sorcerer and
De Profoundis.

Some of them really push the envelope of what RPG's are. Some are just kick ass fun. With all the nostalgia, remeber to try some of the newer stuff.

On RM Leisure Games based in london, will mail order, and have a stock of
Rolemaster gear. They will deliver outside the UK (including Spain), but that costs extra. Hey, if it's the only place to get it...

UPS is the only debugger I use anymore! I've never used it in the situations you asked about (multithreaded code etc), but I have generally found it's a very fast and lean debugger. It's also cross-platform, which is nice.

(The only real downside is its user interface, which isn't too great.)

Sigh. You just had to give the wave tutorial link showing the single-engine aircraft thrashing about in the nasty turbulence of a rotor cloud. Try this link from a soaring perspective instead. Wave is the best type of lift and can only really be appreciated in a sailplane.

An issue for Fossett will be the aircraft's stall speed increasing as his altitude increases (thin air up high). I don't know the specs on his DG505 sailplane, but I'd guess at >50K' the stall speed gets darn close to Vne (max. not to exceed true airspeed).

There's an English TV series of The Tripods, and according to this the first season is available on DVD (althought the second never will be).

You're right, though, that Christopher is great. Loved him when I was a kid.

I first read the Narnia books when I was about 10. They have to be the first books I ever read that I still read today.

When I first expressed an interest in the Narnia books I was told that The Magician's Nephew was the first. But as my Grandparent's copy had dissapeared I was given The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe first, and The Magician's Nephew second (when my constant moaning forced the purchase of a replacement copy). I then read the remainder in chronological order.

Some 20 years later I've just discovered the order I've always thought was correct was wrong. On reflection I'm sure that reading The Magician's Nephew second taught me something valuable about literature. When I discovered that there was a "correct" order I just knew I had to read them in that order.

A quick google lead to this link. Which indicates that there are actually 3 orders, the chronological order, the published order, and the written order. There is also some evidence presented that Lewis expressed a mild preference for the chronological order

So I suppose the "correct" order is the one you believe in. So I think I'm going to go back to thinking as The Magician's Nephew as the "second" book. And then I'll follow the written order.

• There is a [PDF]Pedal Powered Electricity Generator in the MIT Thinkcycle).
• There are small personal windgenerators (cheap?) used for yachting, caravaning,... (<100 watts) (by example Rutlands)
• There are small watergenerators (low head (2') or low stream (10gal/min)) like these from microhydropower.

I read quite a lot about this too.. I can't really make up my mind. There were many interesting facts suggesting why man never actually made it to the moon all those years ago - you can make up your own mind by checking out some of the sites listed below. I really cannot make up my mind on this..

http://www.apollohoax.com/

http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/


http://a1.nu/moon-landing-hoax/

Absolutely gVim. I've used Vim 5.8, 6.0, and 6.1 (the gVim executable, not the console versions) regularly on Windows 98SE, NT, and 2K (and Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux, too, both console and GUI versions). It's never so much as dropped a character.

I have plenty of RAM on all the relevant systems (no less than 96M). If you've got less, try downloading SiSoft Sandra Standard, and check "Windows Memory Information" to see if you're running low.

I also reboot my Windows 98SE system about once a day.-|

Actually, it would be a good thing if everyone died in one big cataclysm, ask Tom Lehrer

Try out some real hard math problems here.

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The Morse Code Alphabet

England. Hey, it's not too much better, but it is better, and that's what's important. There's no language barrier, it's not as remote as NZ (I'll definitely retire there), and it's not a desert of thieves like Australia (heh, no offense). The people are nicer, the land is nicer, the system on a whole is better (if you don't believe me on that, look for an intersection there - they even found a better way to have streets cross). Even from an atheist's viewpoint, it's better.

No, neither of you are scientists. Hydrogen is more powerful. Jusy kidding; I'm sure you both knew this already.

There's the old high school experiment: the teacher pops an H-filled balloon with a candle and there's a bang. Then they pop a balloon filled with 2:1 O:H molecule ratio, and repeat the test - an earth shattering kaboom. The trick is to make sure that the 2 elements to burn are well mixed -- that's why dynamite (whose molecules include ready-to-react oxygen) is so much more effective than gunpowder (which is coarsely mixed with oxygen). Heck, even flour is explosive when mixed with the right proportion of air in a silo

Some hints to get you started: First start to read "The Wire", which is not "Wired" (go to The Wire). It's a magazine that knows what happens from month to month. Subscribe, get the subscribers-only CDs they send you, find out what you like, and explore. Don't listen to people who tell you that Trance is the big one these days, or that their old heroes have defined your listening future.

Buy samplers with different artists on it. One that fits the topic is Electronic 01. Try also the Click'n'Cuts compilation series.

Go to festivals like Sonar, Ars Electronica and Mutek, or at least find out what's hot there.

Follow as many leads as you can, be open-minded.

Check out special interest web shops and sites like Brainwashed, .

What you will find is probably that European, especially German, and Japanese artists are pretty much top of the line these days, but that this keeps changing. My most used line at Sonar this year was "We can see that, at least they're German".

Oh yeah, and the recent "Wired" article about electronic music was about five years out of date.

Noise, all.

Player pianos were made back in Victorian times, and a piano is a "stringed instrument", isn't it? This (very cool) "player ukelele" uses modern computer code, where the pianos used a punch card-like system more akin to older computers. A player piano still had to have a human operator to work foot pedals etc. to give the tune depth and "personality", but in principle this could have been automated too, once the sequence was worked out.

I *do* wish they'd posted sound samples...

• PVMPOV
• PvMegaPov
• MPIPOV
• MPI-Povray

Not only is it fast and featured, but it runs on clusters, using mpi-povray. This site has info on doing it with 3.1, does anyone know if 3.5 works w/clusters??

Not a question for Anthony per se, but just a note that people who find Incarnations of Immortality interesting might also dig the Nobilis roleplaying game, which riffs on similar themes. It's been getting rave reviews, one of which can be found here.

My firewall runs ntpd to sync its time with one of the public time servers in Canada. All of my Unix-ish machines run ntpd to synchronize with that; Windows machines run Tardis on startup to sync.

A trick to find nearby time servers (other than looking at a list): run ntptrace on a nearby, well-administered Unix machine. Find the last machine that's inside the organization--that will be the one they sync with the outside world. Run ntpq on that machine and type peers. You'll see a list of the NTP servers that it queries. Put some of those in your /etc/ntp.conf and you're good.

> The Doctor really seemed to want to be with Peri
Well, he's a guy and she's Nicola Bryant - OF COURSE he wanted to be with her :D

...if they revived 'The Tripods'. I never liked 'Doctor Who' anyway and 'The Tripods' (although short and never finished) was one of the best series in the eighties. Lately, lots of people have been trying to get the BBC (or the other stations that aired the series back then, like germany's ZDF ) to re-air it but they won't due to some legal conflict. God, I hate lawyers =P At least Season 1 got released on DVD. Season two seems to be stuck because of another legal issue...one will has to ask the Donkey. Still, there's a petition (in german) to get it back on the screen. I doubt it'll help much but if you liked the series GO SIGN IT.

That would be Joanna Lumley. More information on Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death can be found here

ahhhh... a fellow Spiritualized fan.. and you've HEARD of the Beach Boys? You can't possibly be American... :)

Here are my best guesses at the
lyrics - any idea about the missing ones? or corrections? I mailed back the card for lyrics but they never arrived. 12 Steps in particular is hard to make out.

No, it is a constitutional democratic republic, wherein what the majority can do (via their elected representatives) to the minority is strictly limited. One thing the majority can't do is push a religious point of view on the minority via the mechanisms of the state. Doesn't (in theory, anyway) matter if it's a minority of one.

True enough, the constitution is there to protect the minority. However, officials are elected by the majority (where the electoral college isn't involved!) and they tend to elect people who are religious. And as proved by the fact that "under god" and "in god we trust" were inserted inserted, they will try to push it.

What irks me is that (a) it was allowed at all and (b) it took this long to come under fire. It either speaks to the fact that people who opposed it were not vocal, were afraid to speak up, or just plain didn't care. To me, the phrases had become so ubiquitous I didn't even consider them a testament to religion.

Pleding alliegence to a piece of cloth is a dumb thing to do, but the state is permitted to encourage it. Pushing statements about metaphysics, however, is clearly out of its bailiwick.

I agree... Here's an interesting piece outlining separation of church and state issues. (It specifically mentions the pledge and currency)

It doesn't stop parents, of course. 13 years (k-12) of catholic school were torture. :)

I've got a few on my machine on my ADSL line. Take what you like ;-)

At Wizzy Digital Courier we are putting together a system that can deliver Internet content in third world countries.

Read the site for all the details, but in a nutshell it implements bandwidth by carrying data physically on a hard drive instead of passing it down a telephone line.

Using 802.11b wireless ethernet cards at either end, a vehicle that makes regular trips to rural areas - be it to deliver people, beer, or bread - can become a conduit for Email and web content.

It uses Linux, UUCP for the transport, and WWWoffle web proxy. The proxy allows requests made at a remote school to be passed back to a well-connected server, which scrapes pages, and passes the content back to back-fill the remote proxy.

Cheers, Andy!

It is official; Sports Illustrated confirms: Soccer is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Soccer community when FIFA confirmed that the Soccer demographic has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all sport fans. Coming on the heels of a recent Sports Illustrated survey which plainly states that Soccer has lost more fans, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Soccer is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sport's Choice Awards.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Soccer's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Soccer faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Soccer because Soccer is dying. Things are looking very bad for Soccer. As many of us are already aware, Soccer continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Premier League is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core players. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Soccer players Diego Maradona and Bernard Lama only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Soccer is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

UEFA leader Lennart Johansson, states that there are 7000 fans of UEFA. How many users of Premier League are there? Let's see. The number of UEFA versus Premier League posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Premier League fans. Australian Soccer posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Premier League posts. Therefore there are about 700 fans of Australian Soccer. A recent article put World Cup at about 80 percent of Soccer competitions. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 World Cup fans. This is consistent with the number of World Cup Usenet posts.

All major surveys show that Soccer has steadily lost fans. Soccer is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Soccer is to survive at all it will be among sport hobbyists and historical recreationists. Soccer continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Soccer is dead.

Fact: Soccer is dying

I think it'd help to get Mark Thomas on the case of this.

For those who haven't heard of him, he's a comedian with a very strong political slant who has a show on British terrestrial TV called "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product", I guess the closest U.S. equivalent would be Micheal Moore? See the BBC article "Mark Thomas: Taking comedy seriously" for a good overview on what he's on about. There's also another BBC article on how a British Government offical tried to mount a smear campaign against him (hmmm, sounds all too familiar!), so he must be doing something right!

I'm sure he'd help in bringing this issue closer to the public, and educate people as to why they need to do something about it. Get in touch with the man by using his site's feedback form or post a question for him on the forums.

Oh, and there's also an unofficial site that's worth a look.

Cheers,

Some are commercial and some are freeware/public domain/whatever.

Off-topic but for general sci-fi IMO a better organ would be a Yamaha cs-80, a 200+ pound analog synth used as the main axe in Blade Runner and Doctor Who. Another personal favorite would be a Synthi 100 (scroll down) used in the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. For simple devices, just get a theremin. Of all of them my next purchase will be an EMS Synthi A - weird sounds emanating from a briefcase, what could be better?

Lotus already did this ages ago. They took an Elise and converted it. Geeks might be interested to know the elise has a bonded extruded aluminium chassis, weighs less than a mini, does 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds (with an untuned 1.8litre 4 cylinder engine), and is rated as being one of the best handling cars on the planet ! Pics of mine here

Read some of Hannah Arendt. She is one proponent of the, now classic, J-Curve Theory of Rising and Declining Satisfaction.

The idea, basically, is that all is well until the public's expectation for change becomes greater than the rate of change allowed by the government. When that happens, you get a revolution.

This is why Reform is so dangerous to totalitarian regimes - it's not the reform itself, but the rate of reform that does the 'damage'. Gorbachev wanted to reform the USSR's Communist Party - but he went too slowly, the people's expectations got too high, and the Berlin Wall fell.

The same is happening in China, and not just in the Internet-space. Economic reform almost caused a revolution - which manifested inself in the Tiananmen Square protests - because it was percievd as going too slowly, and NOT because the Chinese wanted the supposed end result of a Western-Style liberal democracy.

It's actually the process of change that people want, and not the end result. (which is good, as it means we have things like, you know, Progress).

Put a small raid 5 partition on your *nix machine.

Eewwww. I'd skip right past that recommendation. RAID (in paritcular 3/4/5) hardly seems like a good fit for any of his problems.

microsound and lowercase are not necessarily the same thing, though they can be. they both focus on the details of sound. microsound tends towards a 'digital aesthetic' (ref. kim cascone, microsound.org) and fine manipulation of very small particles of sound...

Indeed, much of the lowercase music is acoustic. The granddaddy of the movement, is a sense, was Morton Feldman, who created carefully constructed, often very long works, using conventional instruments at the edges of audibility.

There's also a crossover with the Phonography movement, which uses often very subtle field recordings.

I have a piece on the first lowercase sound compilation CD name "mouth. midnight." which is a pretty much unprocessed quiet vocal improvisation.

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it would cost $199 or $99

Has anyone actually looked at a Mars map? I'm running the latest version of the Mars Simulation Project, looking at the planet in topography mode.

This planet has altitudes ranging from approximately -8000 meters to +22000 meters, with two very distinctive zones: around -100 W, mostly on the southern hemisphere, there is a huge, +5000 meters continent; the northern hemisphere is between -5000 and 0 meters; and there is a very impressive hole centered at 70 E and 40 S, between -7000 and -5000 meters, sourrounded by a 0 to 5000 meters zone - what happened there? A huge spacial hit?

Anyway, saying Mars would be covered by 500 meters of water is completely meaningless. I guess they took the quantity of water and divided it by the surface of Mars. They mostly want to impress people, I guess, but I for one would be more impressed if someone came with a new Mars map showing the areas where the "sea" would be once the ice was melted. There is an illustration there, but of course it doesn't take into account the "real" quantity of ice/water.

here's a snapshot of my desktop when resizing Mozilla (latest release). Notice the "artistic" way it renders the page...

Please see:

• This UK page (now moved here
• This UK news site A quote:

  Ten thousand million nucleotides The number of nucleotides in the EMBL Database has now exceeded 10,000,000,000.

  Seems to indicate that 10^10 = 10 thousand million.
• This site, With quote:

  Despite this, the U.S. meaning is still rare outside journalism and finance, its introduction having served merely to create confusion. Throughout the U.K., a common response to the question "What do you understand by 'a billion'?" would be: "Well, I mean a million million, but I often don't know what other people mean." Few schoolchildren are confident of the meaning, though, again, 10^12 seems to be preferred. Many well-educated adults, aware of both meanings, either avoid the term altogether or use it only in the unambiguous phrases "English billion" and "American billion". English-speaking South Africans, Australians, and New Zealanders are similarly reluctant to use a term that has become ambiguous.

  Scientists have long preferred to express numbers in figures rather than in words, so it is easy to avoid "billion" in contexts where precision is required. The plural is still used freely with the colloquial meaning of "a very large number".

  Publications consulted: OED, Editions 1 and 2. Robert, Dictionnaire historique de la langue francaise. P Pamart, "A propos d'une reforme des mesures legales", in "Vie et Langage", (125)1962, pp 435-437.

Yep, it's not really possibly to seriously claim that the moon landings were faked. There's a rather nice site rebuking the conspiracy freaks:

Moonhoax

Some of it's pretty interesting...

Actually, yes.
There is TechWriter Pro. I used to use this a lot, but nowadays, the RISC-PC (my Acorn machine) is at my parents house, and I don't get to use it too often.
Theres the ROX-Filer project, but it's no real replacement. There is, till today, no GUI out there that can compete with RISC-OS in

• Speed
• Usability
• Intuitivity

If all you have is a modem, then wwwoffle is an even better proxy server than Squid, because it knows about 'online' and 'offline'. If you go offline then the proxy server never tries to download anything - it always serves the page in the cache without checking the (unreachable) server for a new version. So you can browse through already-visited sites without any hassle.

Yes, the subject is a troll, but I've actually been waiting for an opportunity to get opinions from the /. community on the Biefield-Brown Effect. Surely some of you have heard of this:

IANAPhysicist, so maybe some more enlightened opinions will prevail. It just sounds intriguing.

While this indeed is a great innovation, we must remember that this has only been tested by people affected by retinitis pigmentosa. Whether the optical implants can be used to restore sight for people from eye injuries or other diseases remains to be seen.

A lowdown on retinitis pigmentosa can be found here.

Yes, electrons can exist in multiple places at once, but that is limited to very short distances - the planck length. Using a beam splitter you can show that the same photon exists in two positions miles apart from each other simultaneously. This is actually done in the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Ovservatory. Let's see you do that with electrons, and I'll concede that they are particles in the same sense.

Well again. The use of the term "particle" to describe photons is well entrenched among physicists in order to describe how light interacts with other particles. Saying that a photon is a particle (and that electrons are particles) is a useful abstraction for some kinds of calculations.

QED, as we shall call it, is generally considered to be synonymous with the interaction of electrons and "photons", and the names most commonly associated with the theory are Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman (see the first two references below) who treated both entities, quite unambiguously, as elementary particles. QED achieved its most notable success in the period 1947-49, when the Dirac equation was modified to include the interaction of electrons with the vacuum electromagnetic field, thereby explaining, with enormous accuracy, some small effects in the spectrum of atomic hydrogen (Lamb shift) and in the electron's magnetic moment. This was first achieved by Julian Schwinger, who, building on Victor Weisskopf's ideas developed in the 1930s, described the electronic current by means of another field, so that the electron was no longer a point, but an extended object with a diameter of the order of a few picometers (the Compton wavelength). Schwinger's achievement was largely hidden from public view, though, jointly with Feynman and Tomonaga, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for it. Feynman's contribution was to show that Schwinger's very formidable calculations could be "simplified" by reverting to a pointlike description of both electrons and photons.... http://www.keyinnov.demon.co.uk/qed.htm

However, electrons and photons are both waves in the same sense with the primary difference that electron waves are about the size of an atom while photon waves can be many miles in length. In fact, the principle that electrons are also waves is central to the operation of both electron microscopes and our current explanations of molecular structure. (For example, it explains why graphite is planar while diamond is tetrahedral.) In fact, even protons and alpha particles have wave properties which is central to the operation of nuclear power plants.

But I'll even one-up you one. Not only can electrons exist muiltiple places simultaneously, but multiple larger particles can occupy the same space in a Bose-Einstein condensate. But here is a pdf article reporting the quantum superposition of an electron at a distance comparible to that of microcomputer transistor (0.4 micrometres). Also the NIST acheived superposition of atoms simultaneously in two locations at a scale of around 10 atomic diamters. As a result, particle/waves of light and particle/waves of matter don't look so different after all.

Looks like it already works with linux... Seems to say so here anyway.